Filling the Ark: Animal Welfare in Disasters

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Filling the Ark ...

In the series Animals and Ethics Edited by Marc Bekoff Also in the series Marc Bekoff, Animals at Play ...

Filling the Ark Animal Welfare in Disasters Leslie Irvine TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia ...

Leslie Irvine is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Colorado at Boulder, and the author of two previous books, incl ...

Contents Introduction Acknowledgments vii 1 Companion Animals 2 Animals on Factory Farms 3 Birds and Marine Wildlife 4 Animals ...

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Acknowledgments A lthough my name appears on the cover of this book, I could not have written it without help from numerous peop ...

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Introduction And of every living thing of all fl esh, you shall bring two of every kind into the ark, to keep them alive with yo ...

2 / Introduction plements, animals are part of our daily routines. As I tell the stu- dents who take my course Animals and Socie ...

Introduction / 3 the United States quotes a typical press report: “According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, farmers in ...

4 / Introduction Although claims that racism infl uenced the response and recov- ery efforts might have been newsworthy for the ...

Introduction / 5 social ecology of Dade County in South Florida meant that residents were differentially affected by that event ...

6 / Introduction mechanisms that create unequal risks. Studies show how factors including race, class, gender, and ethnicity str ...

Introduction / 7 bers, others are pests or vermin. We consider some animals “wild,” and whether we kill and eat them depends on ...

8 / Introduction social space, the “good” creature quickly becomes a dangerous pred- ator who must be eliminated.^18 Each of the ...

Introduction / 9 ing operations (CAFOs) on corporate mega-farms. CAFOs for hogs comprise rows of long, low barns or sheds, each ...